2017 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 17 - CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
CHAPTER 23 - WYOMING STATUTORY TRUST ACT
ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
SECTION 17-23-107 - Rights of beneficial owners in trust property.

17-23-107. Rights of beneficial owners in trust property.

(a) Except to the extent otherwise provided in the governing instrument, a beneficial owner shall have an undivided beneficial interest in the property of the statutory trust and shall share in the profits or losses of the statutory trust in the proportion of the entire undivided beneficial interest in the statutory trust he owns. The governing instrument of a statutory trust may provide that the statutory trust or the trustees, acting for and on behalf of the statutory trust, shall be deemed to hold beneficial ownership of any income earned on securities of the statutory trust issued by any business entities formed, organized or existing under the laws of any jurisdiction, including the laws of any foreign country.

(b) No creditor of the beneficial owner shall have any right to obtain possession of, or otherwise exercise legal or equitable remedies with respect to, the property of the statutory trust.

(c) A beneficial owner's beneficial interest in the statutory trust is personal property notwithstanding the nature of the property of the trust. Except to the extent otherwise provided in the governing instrument, a beneficial owner has no interest in specific statutory trust property.

(d) Except to the extent otherwise provided in the governing instrument, the transferee of a beneficial owner's beneficial interest in the statutory trust shall only be entitled to receive the share of profits and the return of contributions to which the beneficial owner otherwise would be entitled. In the absence of the unanimous written consent of the owners of all other beneficial interests and of all trustees of the statutory trust, and except to the extent otherwise provided in the governing instrument, a transferee of a beneficial owner's beneficial interest shall have no right to participate in, be kept apprised of the affairs of the statutory trust or to become a beneficial owner of a beneficial interest in the statutory trust.

(e) Except to the extent otherwise provided in the governing instrument, at the time a beneficial owner becomes entitled to receive a distribution, he has the status of, and is entitled to all remedies available to, a creditor of the statutory trust with respect to the distribution. A governing instrument may provide for the establishment of record dates with respect to allocations and distributions by a statutory trust.